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mastodon took away paginated view of a profile on the web and turned it into an infinite scroll?

I gotta get off of this software.

in reply to DJ Sundog

ugh gross, gross, gross. really is just downgrade after downgrade, isn’t it…
in reply to bri

@brhfl I'm absolutely stunned by the revelation. it's obviously not something I do often, but when I wanna paginate and jump a big chunk by editing the url parameters, I damn well wanna be able to do just that.
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in reply to DJ Sundog

"no one would ever want to look through their timeline from this time a few intervals ago, and if they did they'd just scroll back five years or whatever, no big deal."

utterly deranged.

in reply to DJ Sundog

ah fuck, ah damn, linernotes is already infected. fuck. I'm gutted.
in reply to DJ Sundog

i just checked cuz i was kinda curious and on a friend's firefish instance (at least I think it's firefish), when you scroll down through the infinite scroll, your browser makes a POST request with the query parameters in it, of all things, to retrieve the next page of posts; also totally nonsensical
in reply to DJ Sundog

I think in terms of fedi software web frontends that don't have infinite scroll you're pretty low on options unfortunately
in reply to technomancy (turbonerd aspect)

they do yeah :) pillbug also is paginated; I meant web frontends built into the software, not clients per se
in reply to DJ Sundog

I dunno, compy is still kicking even after all that. (Though I guess that was virus being very yes. Hmm.)
in reply to DJ Sundog

@technomancy I'm still salty that the whole &min_id=0 thing doesn't work anymore, sometimes I wanna dig through my old crap

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in reply to Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

@ifixcoinops @technomancy

I have to admit, this one bugs me. Social media is the closest thing to a diary I've ever been able to keep up, and i miss being able to reread my old thoughts.

in reply to Willard Goosey

@goosey @ifixcoinops @technomancy I regularly download my archive, and do a s/},/&\n/g so it puts each toot on its own line and is readable in some editors. But I really need to write/find a proper UI for it instead.
in reply to DJ Sundog

As long as this old data is stored, I want an interface that lets me dial in a past date/time to see the timeline from then. Seems wrong that it's hard for users to do that (but the data is still there -- so *someone* can do it).
in reply to Scott Feeney

@graue yeah, yeah, it was beautiful, just like 20 toots and a link to go back further in time for another twenty, and it used url params so you could mess with the minimum_id directly to jump a whole bunch of time, and it wasn't ideal but it was functional, and now it's just gone. dead. I weep.
in reply to DJ Sundog

@graue that is the "slow mode" setting right? Ugh why is website boy trying to make this place a hellscape when there isn't profit motive here necessitating such exploitation?
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DJ Sundog
@sungo I'm definitely gonna end up jumping one way or another. I just don't wanna dick around with elixir that much.
in reply to DJ Sundog

@DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab I've been using Friendica since before Gargon had looked up what a trunk was.

It's wonderful, first class plugins, first class themes, and fairly agnostic to the underlying protocol. Lets you be what you wanna be.

in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard maybe it is time to take a look at the old ways, I'll poke around - thank!
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DJ Sundog
@sungo haha, well stated - I'll give it another look, it's been years now